What's Up With MPG-o-Matic?

MPG-o-Matic was founded by Daniel Gray,
best-selling tech author, lifelong automotive enthusiast, and breakfast
serial entrepreneur. A child of the sixties, Dan grew up with a
love for cars that knew no bounds, other than his wallet. "It
was all about muscle cars, back in the day. I'd sit at the kitchen
table, eating bowl after bowl of Quisp and Quake, while flipping
through dog-eared copies of Hot Rod and Road and Track,"
said Dan. "The American dream was simple. Just pump in five
bucks of high-test and the throttle was wide open."

True to form, Dan's first two cars were
ragtop Pontiac GTO convertibles that he fixed up and painted. Coming
of age in the era of the first gas crunch in the '70s had a fantastic
benefit ... those old '60s muscle cars had fallen out of favor and
were cheap and plentiful. "I bought my first Goat for $800
and the second for $350, he said. "Of course I could barely
afford to keep gas in them, much less restore them properly."

Flash forward thirty years or so, and we're
still dealing with an energy crisis. Strike up the Talking Heads
...

"How did I get here? This is not my
beautiful house (that costs thousands upon thousands to heat and
cool). This is not my beautiful wife (that refuses to give up her
gas-guzzling SUV) ..."

With those old treasured GTOs long gone,
and impossible as it was for Dan to make the case to his wife to
trade in the SUV for a vehicle that delivered reasonable gas mileage,
he decided to take a different route ... by creating a new web site
devoted to the topic of fun-to-drive fuel efficient vehicles: mpgomatic.com.

MPG-o-Matic is Dan's second stab at publishing
in the automotive realm. "In the late '80s I published Banzai
Wire, a newsletter for Suzuki 4x4 enthusiasts," said Dan.
"Banzai Wire was a crazy idea, and just my luck that
Consumer Reports came out with the Samurai rollover story as we
launched." The publication ran its course over the next few
years, eventually folding after Dan and his wife sold their Suzuki
Samurai in anticipation of their first child.

"I couldn't see her bouncing around
eight months pregnant in that four-wheeled pogo stick," he
said. "So we got practical and traded it in on a Honda Civic
sedan. That's when I began to get the gospel on getting good gas
mileage."

To be continued ...

Many Thanks To ...

MPGomatic would not be possible without the technical wizardry of our good friend and CTO, Chuck Eglinton from ChuckEgg.com.

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While this may look like a cross between a popcorn stand and a shadetree garage, we're always looking for fun ways to keep the doors open and the bills paid. To that end, we run advertising, but we strive to be selective. The only way that all parties are served is when the advertisements are on topic and in (relatively) good taste. On occasion, the secondary ad networks have been known to throw junky ads into the mix. This drives us crazy. We want to serve our readers by accomodating quality advertisers (not punch the diet monkey sweepstakes bottom fishers).

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